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Maersk imposes fog surcharge at Chinese port

Ports

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Maersk Line has taken the unusual step of imposing a congestion surcharge for fog on ships calling the port of Qingdao in northeast China. The carrier says the fog season in Qingdao lasts from May to July and that during this period, normal port operations are impacted due to increase in waiting time as a result of fog-related port closures. Last year its ships incurred an additional 490 hours or 20.4 days of waiting time because of fog in June and July. Maersk also n...

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